erin bennett
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Highlight reel: Colorado’s wild and woolly 2016 election season
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Symbolic of the divisiveness of our politics, many Coloradans will look back at the 2016 election with violent contempt, reflecting on a political year that saw the rise of President-elect Donald Trump, while others will reminisce with sublime glee over a cycle where voters bucked the political establishment. In a year full of tectonic shifts…
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The Hot Sheet, August 1, 2016
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VOL. 01 NO. 142 | AUGUST 01, 2016 | COLORADOSTATESMAN.COM/THE-HOT-SHEET | © 2016By TCS Editor and Publisher Jared Wright DENVER – Good morning and welcome back to real life … if you ever, in fact, left it for the weekend. Some of us don’t take such leisures. Today is Colorado Day, the anniversary of President…
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#Coleg primary elections wrap up: Nail-biters, knockdowns, shakeups
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A gray sky spit hail at last-minute Colorado voters, cars stacked bumper to bumper on Front Range roads, and primary elections ballots piled up at county clerks’s offices around the state, remaking in a preliminary way the shape of the Legislature to come. In the year of Donald Trump, state Republicans lost two hard-line headline-makers…
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Campaign launch to hike Colorado minimum wage sees good turn out, high energy
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Supporters of a statewide ballot initiative to increase the minimum wage to $12 an hour enjoyed an energetic formal launch on Wednesday in Denver. They’ll have to keep stoking and feeding off of the same grassroots energy if they hope to overcome stiff resistance from big-money business groups in the state. “There’s a lot of…
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Sherick tops Court in hot SD 31 voting this weekend; three-candidate contest continues
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Colorado politics watchers looking for more clarity on the tight state Senate District 31 race after this weekend’s Democratic Party assemblies will just have to wait. Emergency room doctor Steve Sherick topped veteran lawmaker Rep. Lois Court in assemblies held in Denver and Arapahoe counties, but both candidates won enough votes to make it onto…
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The Hot Sheet, March 14, 2016
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By TCS Publisher and Editor in Chief Jared Wright _@JaredWright_ Monday, March 14, 2016 DENVER — Coming off of our first busy weekend of county assemblies and conventions — with many more to come — here’s something new this week for all you Hot Sheet fanatics: an actual Hot Sheet. Enjoy it here in the browser, on…
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Bennett: It’s Women’s Equality Day, let’s support family caregivers
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August 26th marked Women’s Equality Day, celebrating the 95th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote. Every year on Women’s Equality Day, 9to5 holds a National Day of Action to fight for family-friendly workplace practices from coast to coast. On Women’s Equality Day, we honor those who have fought for progress, but we must…
